I wrote this story in a hotel room in Pittsburgh. First I imagined a connection between America’s so-called culture wars and obesity—a connection that, if it played out over a few more generations, could result in a US population split between the super-obese and the “normal”-sized. Then I imagined a violent, Viking-style clash between them. I was partly inspired by a single word, “gigantomachy,” which means (kind of) war between people and giants.

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